Ninny vs Nitwit - What's the difference?
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a silly or foolish person
* {{quote-book
, year=1607
, author=John Marston
, title=What you will
, chapter=Act 5, Scene 1
''Sim. Not I by this garter, I am a foole, a very Ninny I, how call you her? how call you her? }}* "Ninny — that soft, smiling, self-effacing, apologetic fellow, the type who is terribly sorry when you happen to step on his foot, the kind you can borrow money from in the certainty he will never demand you repay it." — (1962)
Ninny is a related term of nitwit.
As nouns the difference between ninny and nitwit
is that ninny is a silly or foolish person while nitwit is a scatterbrained or stupid person.ninny
English
Noun
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''Sim. Not I by this garter, I am a foole, a very Ninny I, how call you her? how call you her? }}